Brandon Walsh

Head of Student Programs,
Scholars' Lab, UVA Library
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Brandon Walsh

Brandon Walsh is Head of Student Programs in the Scholars’ Lab in the University of Virginia Library. Prior to that, he was Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Mellon Digital Humanities Fellow in the Washington and Lee University Library. He received his PhD and MA from the Department of English at the University of Virginia, where he also held fellowships in the Scholars’ Lab and acted as Project Manager of NINES. His dissertation examined modern and contemporary literature and culture through the lenses of sound studies and digital humanities, and these days he works primarily at the intersections of digital pedagogy and digital humanities.

Brandon directs the Praxis Fellowship Program in Digital Humanities at Scholars' Lab, also offered as skills and experiential training of PhD+ Digital Humanities core module. Each year, this fellowship supports a team of six University of Virginia PhD students from a variety of disciplines, who work collaboratively on a shared digital humanities project.